A net-fishing reference to 1840s Jamaica.

1851        Gosse, Philip Henry and Richard Hill. A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

July 1885, west coast of Jamaica. Fishermen are using seine nets. Their songs are...WILD!!

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The sound of human voices in melody falls now upon the ear, the song of the negroes who have begun to haul in the seine. Rude their music is and artless their tune; yet, mellowed and softened by distance, now swelling in chorus, now feeble and faint, it has considerable sweetness, as the human voice always has under such circumstances. Yonder we see them, forming two lines in the water, ten or a dozen men in each row, hauling upon the two ropes; the outmost up to the neck in the sea, and the inmost on the beach; all naked, regardless of the burning sun that now pours down his beams upon their woolly heads and glossy backs. It is a slow operation ; and as they all throw their weight upon the line together, they sway backward and forward in time with the wild air whose notes they are singing.
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